About Me
A long time ago, I left my hometown in Northern Wisconsin to attend the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. After graduating with my B.F.A. in Graphic Design, I moved to Milwaukee, WI, for my first graphic design job. Five years later, I ventured west for a two-year adventure in publishing. The following six years found me art directing from a skyscraper in downtown Chicago before returning to Minneapolis, where I would write, design, creative, brand, and marketing direct away the next decade.
And then I came home. I now work for an award-winning publisher from the Northwoods of Wisconsin.
Category Experience: Publishing, MarTech, higher education, performance apparel, k-12 fitness and nutrition, legal, manufacturing systems, and hodags. Like most other trained creatives, I can design and write for any category, I enjoy learning new things.
Project Experience: Integrated campaigns, brand platforms, digital ads, radio ads, video and broadcast development, trade shows, OOH, social, web + landing page, print brochures, catalogs, books, magazines, travel guides, and oh so much more.
Skills: Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft 365, Content Management Systems
Recommendations
“Jill is a rare creative talent who combines brand strategy, creative vision, and operations to set the creative direction and deliver on execution. She is an equal part Creative Director and Project Management Director to ensure processes and communications are in place to effectively and efficiently bring her brand vision to life. As Creative Director she focuses on understanding the consumer and delivers creative with a balance of functional and emotional benefits. With her focus on project management, she puts process and communication flows in place to deliver complex projects. Additionally, she is a strong leader and manager, and has created the most cohesive and stable team we have had in our broad marketing group."
BRAD FRANK / CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER
“Jill is both a creative and strategic mind. She is thoughtful and diligent in her approach, combining conceptual ideas with analytical thinking aimed at delivering against business goals. Jill is one of those creatives that really "gets" marketing and the business side of creativity. She can connect the dots at a high-level, while still being able to pick up the ball and get into the work when the team needs her."
BETH ALLEN / CREATIVE OPERATIONS DIRECTOR
"Jill is a smart, strategic design director and brand story teller. She knows how to connect brands to their end user/customer/student and has an impressive ability to always keep them in the heart and mind of creative. During our time together, she routinely brought innovation, creative inspiration and whole lot of fun. I would work with Jill again without hesitation and she would be a great addition to any team."
KRIS PETTIT / MARKETING DIRECTOR
“Jill is a highly creative and fun designer to work with. She never stops exploring, sharing and growing her talent base. Being very flexible and smart in her approaches, Jill makes the process easy and smooth going along the way, regardless of the simplicity or difficulty of the project at hand."
KATHY SPRINGMEYER / PUBLISHING CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Where in the world is Rhinelander, WI?
It’s pretty nice here.
